Journal
PLANT COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 2, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.xplc.2021.100214
Keywords
sphingolipid metabolism; membrane lateral heterogeneity; vesicular and non-vesicular trafficking
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- Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDB27020207]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31788103, 31690092]
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Sphingolipids, diverse in structure and function across plant species, play essential roles in membrane organization, plant developmental regulation, and stress responses. Studies have identified over 300 plant sphingolipids and revealed their unique properties and distribution within lipid membranes. Challenges and issues in studying sphingolipids are also highlighted for further research.
Sphingolipids, which comprise membrane systems together with other lipids, are ubiquitous in cellular organisms. They show a high degree of diversity across plant species and vary in their structures, properties, and functions. Benefiting from the development of lipidomic techniques, over 300 plant sphingolipids have been identified. Generally divided into free long-chain bases (LCBs), ceramides, glycosylceramides (GlcCers) and glycosyl inositol phosphoceramides (GIPCs), plant sphingolipids exhibit organized aggregation within lipid membranes to form raft domains with sterols. Accumulating evidence has revealed that sphingolipids obey certain trafficking and distribution rules and confer unique properties to membranes. Functional studies using sphingolipid biosynthetic mutants demonstrate that sphingolipids participate in plant developmental regulation, stimulus sensing, and stress responses. Here, we present an updated metabolism/degradation map and summarize the structures of plant sphingolipids, review recent progress in understanding the functions of sphingolipids in plant development and stress responses, and review sphingolipid distribution and trafficking in plant cells. We also highlight some important challenges and issues that we may face during the process of studying sphingolipids.
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